三、 阅读理解（共 3 题）3. Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it mayseem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack ofdesires—not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes. Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty capacities ( 能力) to enjoy life. Mostpeople are already swamped(淹没) with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much.Theylive in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut. Your house of life ought to be a mansion ( 豪宅) , a royal palace. Every new taste, everyadditional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room. Here are several rooms your house oflife should have. Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautifulthings. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they wouldmake you as happy as to find plenty of hamburgers and eggs when you're hungry. Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might findmany an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go toward making you a richperson, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library. Music like Mozart's and Bach's shouldn't be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And whenyou've brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk,you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills. Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, youwould be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the bad days,if you could, and did, played a bit. Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keepadding.【1】The author intends to tell us that____________.A.true happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair meansB.big houses are people's most valued possessionsC.big houses can in a sense bring richness of lifeD.true happiness comes from spiritual riches【2】The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that______.A.however materially rich, they never seem to be satisfiedB.however materially rich, they remain spiritually poorC.though their house is big, they prefer a simple lifeD.though their house is big, it seems to be a cage【3】It can be learned from the passage that __________.A.more money brings more happinessB.art is needed to make your house beautifulC.literature can enrich your spiritual lifeD.sports contribute mainly to your physical fitness【4】What would be the best title for the passage?A.House of Life B.Secret of WealthC.Rest and Refreshment D.Interest and Enthusiasm 4. I was desperately nervous about becoming car-free. But eight months ago our car was hit by apassing vehicle and it was destroyed. No problem, I thought: we’ll buy another. But the insurancepayout didn’t even begin to cover the costs of buying a new car—I worked out that, with the loanwe’d need plus petrol, insurance, parking permits and tax, we would make a payment as much as£600 a month.And that’s when I had my fancy idea. Why not just give up having a car at all? I live inLondon. We have a railway station behind our house, a tube station 10 minutes’ walk away,and a bus stop at the end of the street. A new car club had just opened in our area, and one ofits shiny little red Peugeots was parked nearby. If any family in Britain could live without acar, I reasoned, then surely we were that family. But my new car-free idea, sadly, wasn’t shared by my family. My teenage daughters werehorrified. What would their friends think about our family being “too poor to afford a car”? (Iwasn’t that bothered what they thought, and I suggested the girls should take the sameapproach.) My friends, too, were astonished at our plan. What would happen if someone got seriouslyill overnight and needed to go to hospital? (an ambulance) How would the children get to andfrom their many events? (buses and trains) People smiled as though this was another of mymad ideas, before saying they were sure I’d soon realize that a car was a necessity. Eight months on, I wonder whether we’ll ever own a car again. The idea that you “have to”own a car, especially if you live in a city, is all in the mind. I live—and many other citizens dotoo—in a place that has never been better served by public transport, and yet car ownershiphas never been higher. We worry about rising car costs, but we’d be better off askingsomething much more basic: do I really need a car? Certainly the answer is no, and I’m a lotricher because I dared to ask the question.【1】The author decided to live a car-free life partly because ______.A. most families chose to go car-free B. the cost of a new car was too muchC. he was hurt in a terrible car accident D. the traffic jam was unbearable for him【2】What is the attitude of the author’s family toward his plan?A. Disapproving. B. Supportive. C. Optimistic. D. Unconcerned.【3】What did the author suggest his daughters do about their friends’ opinion?A. Argue against it. B. Take their advice. C. Leave it alone. D. Think it over.【4】What conclusion did the author draw after the eight-month car-free life?A. Life cannot go without a car. B. Life without a car is a little bit hard.C. His life gets improved without a car. D. A car-free life does not suit everyone. 5. One of my neighbors used to have a beautiful tree in her front yard. Her dad had planted it forher when it was nothing more than a twig(树枝) and several years later it started to shoot towardsthe sky with amazing speed. Soon it blessed her with cooling shade in the summer and glorious,golden leaves in the fall.When the two-day snowstorm struck our town, heavy snow fell on the tree’s branches thatwere still full of leaves. The weight split that lovely tree down the middle. It was so sad seeinghalf of it laying on the ground after the storm. When I talked to my neighbor later, she saidthat the damage had been too much and that the entire tree would have to be cut down.Thankfully she had saved a few saplings(树苗) from it that she hoped to replant in the future.Still, it was a shock to drive by her house the other day and see nothing but a stump in herfront yard. I missed that tree. I missed its beauty, its leaves shinning in the afternoon sun. Imissed seeing its limbs reach towards the heavens. I thought that the stump would be a sadreminder of its loss for a long time to come. My wonderful neighbor, though, had anotherplan. When I drove by her home today I saw a tiny bird feeder sitting on that stump and acolorful songbird having its dinner. It was such an affirmation of life. It was such a joy to see.I could feel my heart smile.Life by its very nature is a mixed bag. It hands us beauty and tragedy, love and loss, pleasureand pain. What we do with it, however, is up to us. We can let it split us in two, or we can useeven its hardest times to make our souls stronger and our hearts more loving. We can spend itcomplaining or we can use it to help others.【1】We know from the first paragraph that _____．A. the tree grew very slowly.B. the tree was so strong that it could bear any weight.C. the tree showed its beauty and benefits.D. the author’s neighbor was good at planting trees.【2】The author’s neighbor left a stump in her front yard to use it as_____.A. a good reminder. B. a place to feed birds.C. a seat after dinner. D. a beautiful sculpture.【3】What does the author mainly want to show in the passage?A. Life is determined by our attitude towards it.B. Life consists of pain and suffering.C. Life has beauty and tragedy.D. Life should be pleasant rather than painful.

12)The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without _.A. punishmentB. resentmentC. enforcementD. compliment

1.We`re working to a tight ().我们的工作 ()-|||-安排得很紧。 (单选,2.0分)-|||-A.work-|||-B.schedule-|||-C.plan-|||-D.day-|||-.She decided to ()the afternoon`s class. 她-|||-决定不去上下午的课。(单选,2.0分)-|||-() A.leave-|||-bigcirc B.miss-|||-C.not take-|||-D.skip-|||-3.I think you should always()to see vour D ()

45.（多选题，2.0分） 在（）以及形容词worth后，常用动名词的主动形式表示被动。A. deserveB. needC. requireD. want

He had a(n)_of business failures but people continue to believe him because they know he will eventually succeed.A. depressionB. routineC. associationD. sequence

eBay eBay is a global phenomenon-the world’s largest garage sale, online shopping center, ear dealer and auction site with 147 million registered users in 30 countries as of March 2005. You can find everything from encyclopedias to olives to snow boots to stereos to airplanes for sale. And if you stumble on it before the eBay overseers do, you might even find a human kidney or a virtual date. eBay Basics eBay is, first and foremost, an online auction site. You can browse through categories like Antiques, Boats, Clothing Accessories, Computers Networking, Jewelry Watches and Video Games. When you see something you like, you click on the auction title and view the details, including pictures, descriptions, payment options and shipping information. If you place a bid on an item, you enter a contractual agreement to buy it if you win the auction. All auctions have minimum starting bids, and some have a reserve price-a secret minimum amount the seller is willing to accept for the item. If the bidding doesn’t reach the reserve price, the seller doesn’t have to part with the item. In addition to auctions, you can find tons of fixed-price items on eBay that make shopping there just like shopping at any other online marketplace. You see what you like, you buy it, you pay for it and you wait for it to arrive at your door. You can pay for an item on eBay using a variety of methods, including money order, cashier’s check, cash, personal check and electronic payment services like PayPal and BidPay. It’s up to each seller to decide which payment methods he’ll accept. Just as you can buy almost anything on eBay, you can sell almost anything, too. Using a simple listing process, you can put all of the junk in your basement up for sale to the highest bidder. When you sell an item on eBay, you pay listing fees and turn over a percentage of the final sale price to eBay. Once you register (for free) with eBay, you can access all of your eBay buying and selling activities in a single location called "My eBay." eBay Infrastructure A series of service disruptions in 1999 caused real problems for eBay’s business. Over the course of three days, overloaded servers intermittently shut down, meaning users couldn’t check auctions, place bids or complete transactions during that period. Buyers, sellers and eBay were, very unhappy, and a complete restructuring of eBay’s technological architecture followed. In 1999, eBay was one massive database server and a few separate systems running the search function. In 2005, eBay is about 200 database servers and 20 search servers. The architecture is a type of grid computing that allows for both error correction and growth. With the exception of the search function, everything about eBay can actually run on approximately 50 servers-Web servers, application servers and data-storage systems. Each server has between 6 and 12 microprocessors. These 50 or so servers run separately, but they talk to each other, so everybody knows if there is a problem somewhere, eBay can simply add servers to the grid as the need arises. While the majority of the site can run on 50 servers, eBay has four times that. The 200 servers are housed in sets of 50 in four locations, all in the United States. When you’re using eBay, you may be talking to any one of those locations at any time--they all store the same data. If one of the systems crashes, there are three others to pick up the slack. When you’re on the eBay Web site and you click on a listing for a Persian rug, your com-puter talks to Web servers, which talk to application servers, which pull data from storage servers so you can find out what the latest bid price is and how much time is left in the auction, eBay has local partners in many countries who deliver eBay’s static data to cut down on download time, and there are monitoring systems in 45 cities around the world that constantly scan for problems in the network. Using eBay: Security In order to make buyers feel safer when making purchases on eBay, all tangible (有形的) items are automatically insured for 200. A recipe that was supposed to be delivered to you via e-mail is not considered a tangible item. But if you purchased a set of speakers that never arrived, and you go through the dispute process and eBay determines you were defrauded (欺骗), you can get your money back up to 200. Buyer Fraud Buyer fraud is typically less damaging than seller fraud. The most common type of fraud a buyer can commit is simply not paying for an item. Sellers can deal with non-paying bidders by filing an Unpaid Item dispute, eBay will then attempt to contact the buyer and get her to pay. If she does not respond to eBay’s attempts after eight days, the seller is reimbursed (赔偿)for eBay’s cut of the final sale price and can relist the item for free. If the buyer does respond, the dispute can end in one of three ways: The buyer decides to pay, and everybody’s happy. The buyer and the seller decide together to abandon the transaction, the seller gets reimbursed for the final-value fee and relists the item for free, and everybody’s happy. The seller decides not to deal with the buyer, the buyer gets an unpaid-item strike against her, and the seller gets reimbursed for the final-value fee and relists the item for free. In the end, the damage to the seller is relatively small. Another type of buyer fraud occurs when a buyer sends false payment. In most cases, this is in the form of a bounced check, and the seller finds out about it before shipping the item. Bounced checks are as common on eBay as they are in the rest of the world, and many sellers choose not to accept personal checks for this reason. Seller Fraud Seller fraud is what most people think about when they worry about using eBay. There are two main ways in which a buyer can be defrauded by a seller. The item the buyer purchased is dramatically different from how it was described in the listing; or the item simply never arrives. One thing to keep in mind when you think you’ve been defrauded is that miscommunication is common on eBay. For instance, if you didn’t read every word of the auction listing for your item, you may have missed the part that said the seller would be out of town for three weeks and wouldn’t be able to ship the item until she returned. This could be why you don’t have your item and the seller isn’t answering your e-mails. Also, e-mail is not the most straightforward form of communication. If your item hasn’t arrived after two weeks, and you’ve e-mailed the seller but haven’t heard back, it’s a good idea to check your junk mail folder. Your seller may have sent a response e-mail that just never made it to your inbox. If there’s nothing from the seller in your junk folder, you can request that eBay reveal your seller’s phone number so you can give him a call and see what’s going on. If you don’t get an answer to your phone call (or if your seller lives in another country and it would cost too much money to call), your next step is to start the dispute process. When a buyer believes he has been defrauded, he can file a complaint, and eBay will work to solve the problem. When you file a complaint in eBay’s "Item Not Received or Significantly Not as Described" system, eBay will act as middleman between you and your seller to try to settle the dispute. If that fails, you can file a claim to get reimbursed for your purchase.Which of the following may be banned by eBay overseers A．Virtual dates.B．Any over-priced products.C．Priceless antiques.D．Rare animals for pets.

阅读下面文章，按要求完成试题。法 官（英）赫哥黎①查理·哈斯克尔去世时，留下了妻子和9个孩子，他们靠一小块土地为生，住在一所有4间屋的房子里。约翰是家里的长子，所以他的母亲告诉他，他必须承担起照顾全家的责任。那年他16岁。②约翰到镇里最有钱的人、法官多恩那儿去要一美元，那是法官买约翰父亲的玉米时欠的钱。法官多恩把钱给了他。然后，法官说约翰的父亲欠他40美元。“你打算什么时候还给我？”法官问。“我希望你不要像你的父亲那样”他说，“他是个懒汉，从不卖力气干活。”③那一年的夏天，除了星期天，约翰天天都到别人的田里干活；每天晚上和星期天全天在自己家的地里干活。到了夏天结束的时候，约翰积攒了5美元交给法官。④冬季天气太冷，不能耕种，约翰的朋友、印第安人塞夫给他提供了一个在冬季挣钱的机会。塞夫说教约翰诱捕动物，获取兽皮，这样能够挣很多钱，但是需要75美元买一杆枪和捕猎用的绳、，以及在树林里过冬的食物。约翰去见法官多恩，说明了他的打算，法官同意借给他那笔钱。⑤约翰吻别了母亲，和塞夫一起来到林子深处的塞夫几年前搭建的一间小木屋前。这年冬天，约翰会了追捕野兽和怎样在树林里生存。大森林考验了他的毅力，使他变得勇敢，也使他的体格更加健壮；同时捕到了很多猎物，得到的兽皮至少可以挣200美元。塞夫想继续打猎直到4月份，约翰决定自己一个人回家。塞夫帮约翰捆扎好兽皮和捕猎用的东西，让他能够背在背上。⑥这一天，当约翰快步走在树林中时，他开始考虑起他的将来。他要去读书和写字，他要给家里买一块大一些的农田。也许有朝一日，他也会像镇里的法官一样有权势，并受人尊敬。背上沉甸甸的东西使他考虑起到家后要做的事情：给他母亲买一身新衣服，给弟弟妹妹们买些玩具，他还要去见法官。约翰恨不得马上就把法官说的他父亲借的钱全部还清。⑦到了下午晚些时候，约翰的腿疼了起来，背上的东西也更加沉重。当他终于到达河边时，他高兴极了，因为这意味着他就要到家了。他看到河边长着一棵笔直的大树，它的高度足以达到河的对岸。约翰取出斧头砍倒大树。树倒下来，在河面上形成一座独木桥。⑧约翰身背兽皮、怀抱猎枪，跨到放倒的树上。树在他脚下稳如磐石。就在他快要走到河中央时，树干突然动了起来，约翰从树上掉到冰上。沉到水里，他的枪掉了，兽皮和捕猎用具也从他的背上滑了下来，被湍急的河水冲走了。约翰破冰而行，挣扎到河岸。他在雪地上躺了一会儿。然后，他爬了起来，找来一根长树枝，沿着河边来回走着。一连几个小时戳着冰块，寻找那些东西。最后，他放弃了。⑨他径直来到法官家。天已很晚，但是法官仍在他的办公室里。约翰敲门进去，他浑身冰冷，衣服潮湿。他向法官讲述了所发生的事情。等他把话讲完。多恩说：“这对你和我都很不幸。回家去吧，孩子。”⑩到了夏天，约翰拼命干活。他又攒够了5美元付给法官。但是他还欠法官30美元——那是他父亲欠的债，还有用来买捕猎工具和枪的75美元。⑪10月份的时候，法官派人叫来约翰说，“你欠了我很多钱，我想我能够要回这些钱的最好方法，就是今年冬天再给你一次狩猎的机会。如果我再借给你75美元，你愿意再去打猎吗？”约翰羞愧难当，好半天才开口说：“愿意。”⑫这一次，他必须独自一人进森林，因为塞夫已经搬到别的地方去了。在那个漫长而孤独的冬天，约翰每天出去打猎。一直到4月底。回家后，法官帮他把兽皮卖了300美元。约翰付给法官150美元，那是他借来买打猎用具的钱。然后他又慢慢地、把他父亲借的那部分钱一张一张地交到法官的手里。⑬又到了夏天，约翰除了在自己家的田里干活，还去读书和写字。这以后的十年里，他每年冬天都到森林里去打猎，他把卖兽皮挣来的钱全部攒了下来。最后他用这些钱买了一个大农场。⑭约翰30岁的时候，成了本镇的头面人物之一。那一年法官去世了，他把他的那所大房子和大部分财产留给了约翰，他还给约翰留下了一封信。信的日期是法官在约翰第一次外出找猎向他借钱的那天。⑮ “亲爱的约翰，”法官写道，“我从未借给你父亲一分钱，因为我从未相信过他。但是第一次见到你时，我就喜欢上了你。我想确定你和你的父亲不一样，所以我考验了你。 这就是我说你父亲欠我40美元的原因。祝你好运，约翰！”信封里有40美元。　（摘自《小小说选刊》，有改动）依据提示，完成对小说情节的梳理。听说父亲欠钱，攒钱还债—— —— ——成为富人，获得遗产，得知真相。结合语境，品味下列语句，分析其表达效果。然后他又慢慢地、把他父亲借的那部分钱一张一张地交到法官的手里。第（6）段采用了大段的心理描写，其作用是什么？有人认为小说的主人公是法官多恩，也有人认为小说的主人公是约翰，你赞同哪一种观点？请结合文本，谈谈你的观点和理由。

D　　Some radio signals were heard in 1967. They were coming from a point in the sky where there was unknown star. They were coming very regularly, too — about once a second, as if they were controlled by clock.　　The scientists who heard the signals did not tell anybody else. They were rather afraid to tell in case they frightened people. The signals were coming from a very small body—no bigger, perhaps than the earth. Was that why no light could be seen from it? Or were the signals coming from a planet that belonged to some other star? There was no end to the questions, but the scientists kept the news secret. "Perhaps there are intelligent beings out there." they thought, "who are trying to send messages to other planets, or to us?" So the news was not given to the newspaper. Instead, the scientists studied the signals and searched for others like them. Well, all that happened in 1967 and 1968. Since then scientists have learnt more about those strange, regular, radio signals. And they have told the story, of course.　　The signals do not come from a planet; they come from a new kind of star called a "pulsar"(脉冲星). Pulsars are strong radio stars. They are the smallest but the heaviest stars we know at present. And we can be sure of this: no intelligent beings are living on them. Until now over a hundred other pulsars have been found, and most of them are very like the first one.　　Recently, Chinese researchers have discovered six pulsars, which are super heavy remains of massive stars, using its Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, known as FAST, thus opening a "new era of Chinese original space discovery". Li Di, the telescope's deputy chief engineer, said FAST is set to be fully operational by the end of 2019. Meanwhile, scientists there will continue to test FAST and cooperate with foreign scientists on space exploration.The radio signals discussed in this passage _____.A. were regularB. were controlled by a clockC. were heard in 1967 onlyD. were secret messagesThe scientists did not tell people about the signals because _____.A. the signals stood for secret messagesB. people might be frightenedC. the signals stood for unimportant messagesD. people would ask them too many questionsA pulsar _____.A. is a well-known satelliteB. is a small and light starC. has intelligent beings that were known at that timeD. is a small heavy star sending out strong radio signalsWhich of the following is TRUE?A. The radio signals were sent by a sky body which was known at that time.B. Scientists have searched for pulsars for many years but found none.C. Chinese researchers have discovered six pulsars using FAST.D. Now is the new era of Chinese space discovery with perfect FAST.

三、Cloze (共1题，30.0分)18. (2022,30.0分)Say "genius" and his name immediately comes to mind. Einstein is the closest you get to____genius even small kids know him. There is no other____in the academic world that has even half Einstein's____.There is no genius in the world as____and as loved as Albert Einstein. His picture with his____hairstyle even became a pop culture icon.Nowhere in the world could we find another____that ranks the popularity of rock superstars. His soon "Eminem" would____any Beatles' album record, his "Theory of Relativity" even____Newton's gravitationa theory off the charts.Kids would love him more if they knew that he loved music. Had he lived later, he could easily____the only male member of the Bond electric quartet. Wouldn't it be great to see Einstein____alongside there gorgeous girls?

What conclusion can be drawn about Millennial women from the 2013 survey?A.They still view this world as one dominated by males.B.market.C.They see the world differently from older generations.D.They do better in work than their male counterparts.E.Part IV Translation (30 minutes)F.irections: For this part, you are allowed 30minutes to translate a passage from Chinese intoG.nglish. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2. 近年来,中国有越来越多的城市开始建设地铁。发展地铁有助于减少城市的交通拥堵和空气污染。 地铁具有安全、快捷和舒适的优点。越来越多的人选择地铁作为每天上班或上学的主要交通工具。如今,在中国乘坐地铁正变得越来越方便。在有些城市里,乘客只需H.or this part, you are allowed 30minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2. 近年来,中国有越来越多的城市开始建设地铁。发展地铁有助于减少城市的交通拥堵和空气污染。 地铁具有安全、快捷和舒适的优点。越来越多的人选择地铁作为每天上班或上学的主要交通工具。如今,在中国乘坐地铁正变得越来越方便。在有些城市里,乘客只需用卡或手机就可以乘坐地铁。许多当地老年市民还可以免费乘坐地铁。I.根据企业发展战略的要求,有计划地对人力、资源进行合理配置,通过对企业中员工的招聘、培训、使用、考核、评价、激励、调整等一系列过程,调动员工地积极性,发挥员工地潜能,为企业创造价值,确保企业战略目标的实现。J.读书是一种感悟人生的艺术读杜甫的诗使人感悟人生的辛酸,读李白的诗使人领悟官场的腐败,读鲁迅的文章使人认清社会的黑暗,读巴金的文章使人感到未来的希望每一本书都是一个朋友,教会我们如何去看待人生读书是人生的一门最不缺少的功课,阅读书籍,感悟人生,助我们走好人生的每一步K.n (霓虹) is to Hong Kong as red phone booths are to London and fog is to San Francisco. When night falls, red and blue and other colors 26 a hazy (雾蒙蒙的) glow over a city lit up by tens of thousands of neon signs. But many of them are going dark, 27 by more practical, but less romantic, LEDs (发光二极管).L.hanging building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy 28 , but still carry great cost. "To me, neon represents memories of the past," says photographer Sharon Blance, whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the city's famous signs. "Looking at the signs now I get a feeling of amazement, mixed with sadness."M.to mold glass tubes into 30 shapes and letters. They fill these tubes with gases that glow when 31 . Neon makes orange, while other gases make yellow or blue. It takes many hours toN.raft a single sign.O.lance spent a week in Hong Kong and 32 more than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the series thatP.apture the signs lighting up lonely streets—an 33 that makes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship. "I love the beautiful, handcrafted, old-fashioned 34 of neon," says Blance. The signsQ.asy to admire their colors and craftsmanship. "I love the beautiful, handcrafted, old-fashioned 34 of neon," says Blance. The signs do nothing more than 35 a restaurant, theater, or other business, but do so in the most striking way possible.R.alternativeS.approachT.castU.challengingV.decorativeW.efficientX.electrifiedY.H) identify I) photographed J) professionalsZ.K) quality L) replaced M) stimulate N) symbolizes O) volunteers[.Section B.a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once.].questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.^.n Students—Baring an Ethnic Divide_.high-achieving school district near Princeton, New Jersey, sent parents an alarming 16-page letter. The school district, he said, was facing a crisis. Its students were overburdened and stressed out, having to cope with too much work and too many demands. In the previous school year, 120 middle and high school students were recommended for mental health assessments and 40 were hospitalized. And on a survey administered by the district, students wrote things like, "I hate going to school," and "Coming out of 12 years in this district, I have learned one thing: that a grade, a percentage or even a point is to be valued over anything else."`.With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a national discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it has gone too far. At follow-up meetings, he urged parents to join him in advocating a "whole child" approach to schooling that respects "social-emotional development" and "deep and meaningful learning" over academics alone. The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.a.But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines. On one side are white parents like Catherine Foley, a former president of the Parent-Teacher-Student Association at her daughter's middle school, who has come to see the district's increasingly pressured atmosphere as opposed to learning. "My son was in fourth grade and told me, 'I'm not going to amount to anything because I have nothing to put on my resume,'" she said. On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade, who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a "dumbing down" of his children's education. "What is happening here reflects a national anti-intellectual trend that will not prepare our children for the future," Jia said.b.an hour and a half from New York City, West Windsor and Plainsboro have become popular bedroom communities for technology entrepreneurs, researchers and engineers, drawn in large part by the public schools. From the last three graduating classes, 16 seniors were admitted to MIT. It produces Science Olympiad winners, classically trained musicians and students with perfect SAT scores.c.district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from China, India and Korea. This year, 65 percent of its students are Asian-American, compared with 44 percent in 2007. Many of them are the first in their families born in the United States. They have had a growing influence on the district. Asian-American parents are enthusiastic supporters of the competitive instrumental music program. They have been huge supporters of the district's advanced mathematics program, which once began in the fourth grade but will now start in the sixth. The change to the program, in which 90 percent of the participating students are Asian-American, is one of Aderhold's reforms.d.campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practice that Aderhold is limiting this school year. With many Asian-American children attending supplementary instructional programs, there is a perception among some white families that the elementary school curriculum is being sped up to accommodate them.e.no-homework nights, an end to high school midterms and finals, and an initiative that made it easier to participate in the music program.f.h pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into the middle class. "They don't have the same chances to get their children internships (实习职位) or jobs at law firms," Lee said. "So what they believe is that their children must excel and beat their white peers in academic settings so they have the same chances to excel later. "g.I) The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides. West Windsor-Plainsboro has not had a teenage suicide in recent years, but Aderhold, who has worked in the district for seven years and been chief for the last three years, said he had seen troubling signs. In a recent art assignments, a middle school student depicted (描绘) an overburdened child who was being scolded for earning an A, rather than an A+ , on a math exam. In the image, the mother scolds the student with the words, "Shame on you!" Further, he said, the New Jersey Education Department has flagged at least two pieces of writing on state English language assessments in which students expressed suicidal thoughts.h.J) The survey commissioned by the district found that 68 percent of high school honor and Advanced Placement students reported feeling stressed about school "always or most of the time." "We need to bring back some balance," Aderhold said. "You don't want to wait until it's too late to do something. "k. "It's become an arms race, an educational arms race," she said. "We all want our kids to achieve and be successful. The question is, at what cost?"